Democrats Are Freaking Out After An Absolutely Disastrous Election Night

[DigitalDrifter]

It pains me to see Dimocrats so upset. I will have another difficult night of sleeping.

Democrats knew they were in trouble on election night Tuesday when a Virginia Senate seat that was expected to be a blowout victory began to come in much closer than expected.
"When you're cheering for an eke-out win in Virginia, it's not going to be a good night," one Democratic strategist told Business Insider.
Another Democratic insider summed up his impression of the evening's results in a blunt text message: "Fucking. Bloodbath."
In almost every sense, the midterm elections were a disaster for the Democratic Party. The Democrats lost their majority in the US Senate, and the final results were shaping up to be close to the worst-case scenario for Democrats in which Republicans would swing eight or nine seats.
In addition to the Senate majority, Democrats were badly beaten further down the ballot. They lost key gubernatorial battles — some in strongholds and others in key targets for pickups. And they were further walloped in the House of Representatives, where Republicans are now on track to have the party's largest majority since 1928 for the final two years of President Barack Obama's term.
Republicans were gleeful.
"Feel like we're surfing at the moment," one Republican official told Business Insider, playing off the theme of a GOP "wave" election.
Democrats who spoke to us also described the results in nautical terms, but they saw it as a natural disaster rather than a day at the beach.
"No one expected the tsunami in 2014," a Democratic operative said.
The operative pointed to the fact election forecaster Nate Silver's model initially didn't make dire predictions for Democrats as evidence "there was literally no indication of this."
"Look at Nate Silver's stuff. Not that he's a god, but he aggregates all the polls," the operative said. "I'm honestly in shock."
The Democratic insider who described election night as a "bloodbath" also used the tidal-wave metaphor — and that person laid blame for the wipeout squarely at Obama's feet.
"This is a tsunami. Heads will roll at 1600. And if they don't, shame," the insider said, adding: "The president has 60 days to clean house, regrow his spine, and lay out an aggressive, centrist agenda. If he fails at any of those, he might as well just start writing his memoir."
A national Democratic operative from the liberal wing of the party echoed the idea Obama was personally to blame for the party's losses Tuesday night. The operative also slammed any colleagues who might try to defend the president.
"Democratic operatives who refuse to acknowledge this is the White House's fault are out of their f------ minds," the operative said. "These operatives who don't understand that the White House fucked up are the same hacks who overcharge House and Senate candidates for shitty consulting work and help lose elections year after year."
The operative also said Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hurt the party by delaying ambitious action on immigration and other hot-button issues to protect incumbent senators in southern states.
"It also doesn't help that Dems completely broke their promise to enact immigration reform. Reid's strategy of 'no big bills' this year that could protect [Arkansas Sen. Mark] Pryor, [North Carolina Sen. Kay] Hagan, and [Louisiana Sen. Mary] Landrieu obviously backfired," the operative said. "They lost anyway, and we pissed off our base at the same time."
According to the insider, Democratic pollsters traced the origins of Tuesday night's Republican victories to Obama's infamous late August news conference in which he was asked about his plans for dealing with the jihadist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) and declared "We don't have a strategy yet."
"[We have] now heard from multiple pollsters that the bottom fell out when the president said he didn't have a plan to deal with ISIS," the insider said. "Reinforced growing belief that it was a rudderless ship, and then Ebola struck."
On election night, Democrats' Senate problems began in Virginia, where incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner was staving off a challenge from Republican Ed Gillespie that was much stronger than expected. Most outlets still had not called the race by night's end, though Warner had jumped to a lead of a few thousand votes.
"Didn't expect this," one Democratic strategist texted Business Insider as the race remained tight as the night went on.
In the Senate battle, Democrats lost seats to Republicans in North Carolina, West Virginia, Montana, South Dakota, Arkansas, Iowa, and Colorado — giving the party a 52-45 majority. The results yet to be called include Alaska and Louisiana, where a runoff will be held next month and polls show Republicans are favored to make another pickup.
But perhaps more sobering for Democratic officials were gubernatorial races. Their candidates lost in toss-up states like Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Maine, and Florida, all of which had highly vulnerable Republican incumbents. The GOP also took control of the state houses in the Democratic strongholds of Illinois and Massachusetts.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/elections-are-democratic-disaster-2014-11#ixzz3IFNxcDZq

 

[TheOldSchool]

Two years will be nothing. The GOP doesn't have the power to damage America too badly over that time. Therefore...

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

More like a bitch slap.

 

[S.J.]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

More like a bitch slap.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

More like a bitch slap.

No, it's really not, but you play it that way, play it for all it's worth.

 

[S.J.]

They are, and Obama came across as a bitter spoiled kid that just got disciplined. Come to think of it, that's pretty much the case.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

You should talk to Jake Starkey, he's not taking it so well

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

You should talk to Jake Starkey, he's not taking it so well

So he's a dumbfuck, I couldn't care less.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

They are, and Obama came across as a bitter spoiled kid that just got disciplined. Come to think of it, that's pretty much the case.

Since he's off to play golf for the next two years, I'm deeply unconcerned.

 

[S.J.]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

You should talk to Jake Starkey, he's not taking it so well

So he's a dumbfuck, I couldn't care less.

Really? JakeStarkey. Are you liberal wackos turning on each other already?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

You should talk to Jake Starkey, he's not taking it so well

So he's a dumbfuck, I couldn't care less.

Really? JakeStarkey. Are you liberal wackos turning on each other already?

I don't care if he's so liberal Jesus tells him to grow a pair. Unlike you little morons I don't come here to get my dick sucked in the boys locker room.

 

[Vigilante]

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Where do you get this utter BS from V? Obama doesn't care, he doesn't need to.

 

[Vigilante]

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Of cour

 

[S.J.]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

You should talk to Jake Starkey, he's not taking it so well

So he's a dumbfuck, I couldn't care less.

Really? JakeStarkey. Are you liberal wackos turning on each other already?

I don't care if he's so liberal Jesus tells him to grow a pair. Unlike you little morons I don't come here to get my dick sucked in the boys locker room.

No, you want to be the one DOING the sucking.

 

[Spare_change]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

You should talk to Jake Starkey, he's not taking it so well

So he's a dumbfuck, I couldn't care less.

Really? JakeStarkey. Are you liberal wackos turning on each other already?

I don't care if he's so liberal Jesus tells him to grow a pair. Unlike you little morons I don't come here to get my dick sucked in the boys locker room.

Now, THAT is classy ... and ever so mature.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Freaking out? No, only a fool would. In politics this is a skinned knee.

You should talk to Jake Starkey, he's not taking it so well

So he's a dumbfuck, I couldn't care less.

Really? JakeStarkey. Are you liberal wackos turning on each other already?

I don't care if he's so liberal Jesus tells him to grow a pair. Unlike you little morons I don't come here to get my dick sucked in the boys locker room.

Now, THAT is classy ... and ever so mature.

Hey, the PC Police are on the job. Wonderful to know.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The far right think they are going to have a say what happens in Congress.

Mitch just locked Ted in the washroom.